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wench-and-jezebel · 2 years ago

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Dark Angel Reaction: Hit a Sista Back

Jezebel (@typicalopposite) reacts [with occasional asides by Wench (@scripted-downfall)]

Oooop 🙂

[Immediate OMax content] Yus

Bruh Cindy 😂😂😂 tell her what you really think [oof fair] I’d hate for her to see me [Ma’am, don’t even start; guarantee your skin looks better than mine] Hah! HAHAHA! No

[Zach be back ‘sigh’] 😂😂😂😂😂

“Something like that” WHY NOT JUST TELL HER WHAT’S GOING ON?? SHE KNOWS?! [Because Max has to be bitchy and mysterious or she ain’t Max]

Oh nooooo 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[Max, don’t fuck up her life please] I mean she’s not in the wrong to bring it up tho. But also 🥺🥺🥺 [I feel like there’s a difference between “you’re in danger; you don’t know me but the people who took your wife are dangerous” and “your wife/the mother of your child is not who you think she is and you’re all gonna die”] True

Oh boy… Kid’s gifted! Dads like ooop

Noooooo Lintlicker gonna want him! 😤 ‘sigh’ I say nothing

[Oh, look. Lintlicker.] DAMN IT ALL WHY THEY GOTTA KEEP BRINGING KIDS INTO IT 😂😂😂😭😭😭😭

Ugh the dreaded oooOoOooOo! It’s almost worse that the spinning baby [skdlafjlaksjdf wait til you hear the voiceover]

Oh boy. “Since I be broke now” Logan’s gonna be regretting coming out with the info

[Oh, no, not the hiding-things storyline] ☠️☠️☠️☠️

[“[Tinga]’d do the same for me” bitch, no she wouldn’t? You tried this. Multiple times. She was like, yah, no, I’ma dip] ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ 😂😂😂 “one of them would surely do the same for me… I’mma keep trying til I get the right one” [YEAH. BUT IT’S ALEC. AND SHE GIVES LESS THAN TWO SHITS ABOUT HIM] ☠️☠️☠️ his not a sibling maam! It doesn’t count!😤😤😤 [You right, you right. Sorry, I forgot we just meant siblings and not generic discussions of Manticore folks] 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Oh, so Tings has told them, just a different way [:)]

Lie! No kid falls asleep that easy! [He’s gifted thus falls asleep quickly] ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

[“These guys never learn” Max, ma’am, nor do you] Ooop

[“I don’t do guns” MA’AM.] Lol [Isn’t this the same logic she used against Logan?] ☠️☠️☠️☠️ [“You have access to money, thus it’s stupid to give it up out of a sense of justice/nobility” “You have access to a gun, thus it’s stupid to not use one out of a sense of… idk” Same argument, so why ain’t she listening to her own strategy???]

[Things were not safer this way]

Max is so emotionless I swear to god [I know! And we know for a fact that’s not a Manticore thing because Ben, Tinga, Alec… they have emotion. Too much emotion, technically. It’s just a Max (and kinda Zach but kinda not) thing]

Ack I hate herrrrrr [Renfro? She pisses me off so much]

[Tinga is. Very pretty. Just saying]

Oooop mama bear! And dad’s an idiot I see [alsfkjaldkfjlakdfj] Like the red flags that should have already been going off…

And you get your head shaved and a tattoo and meticulous training [“can my mommy be there” as;lkdfj;alkdfj;lkj Yes, actually, that’s his whole plan]

[I’m starting to think JamPony won’t be in this much :(] Oh noooo 💔💔💔

[Max, you’ve been there, but only ‘cause you’re not clear about stuff. OC woulda rolled with it and you know it. Kendra… less clear, but still.] Well tbf she did straight up tell them both once and they laughed [She didn’t really try, ma’am. If I wanted you to believe a story, even if you initially laughed, I could make you believe at least that I believed it] Well she didn’t try to explain but she flat out told them ☠️ [Yeah, but that’s what I mean by her a) not being clear and b) not really trying. She’s trying to get cred for not having been able to tell people because they’d not understand, but she literally never gave them the opportunity to.]

Tf! [Not sure that’s how physics works] The anxiety that gave me and it didn’t even show it [That was a very springy rope for tightrope walking, I feel] ☠️☠️☠️

Ma’am! Give them a — ok fair kinda but Hmph

[This poor dude tho getting sucked into it all] I know

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Jezebel: Soooo! I have a feeling somethings gonna go bad! And either husband is gonna die or Tinga is gonna die! Mainly cause I highly doubt kid is gonna die

Wench: All this death!

Jezebel: So much!

Wench: I don’t fully remember how this shakes out — I know some, not the rest — so: You do know that them going back to Manticore is an option. We’re nearing the finale. It’s possible that they’re trying to rescue the kid

Jezebel: Yeahhhhh but idk! Unless they get the kid and he goes back! But they would never let that happen so again. Deth. When’s the last episode? Next one?

Wench: No, two left in the season

Jezebel: Ooooh!

Wench: But I think the last two are together? Iirc? idk for sure

Jezebel: Well, I’m trying to think of more past that, but this has been a very one-themed episode

Wench: No JamPony :(

Jezebel: I know… Is sad. But I’m done!

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[Did. Did she say “objective: offspring” alskjdflaksjdf] ☠️☠️☠️☠️

Oh lord, big bro. Well. Big “bro.” Hubby better watch him

At least their not real or half- ooop 🙂

“They made me young again.” Enough to make any woman switch sides [“they brainwashed you.” Max, why are you surprised by this?]

Ooop! Max actually losing! [btw. Max winning any fight against a Manticore transgenic is so stupid. This woman has been out of the game for ages.] ☠️☠️☠️ [She beats Ben; okay, yeah, that makes sense becuase they’ve both been out for ages. She doesn’t beat Tinga: MAKES SENSE. She beats a number of other “true blue” Manticore soldiers: WHAT?! She should have some degree of advantage from knowing street fight moves but otherwise she should Very Much Not Win]

“He’ll get over it….” Um he might not [Some people actually value interpersonal trust. And don’t lie to their S.O.s] Exactly

I meannnnnnn Zach’s not wrong, but also they would need the protection too [Agreed]

“And then her prince peaced out cause she’s a liar” ☠️ [asldkfj]

💔💔💔

“No, we’re not “not like that” because she’s a transgenic; it’s because we are emotionally constipated please leave it alone” ☠️😂 [askldjflaksdjflkjadsf This kind of thing kinda annoys me though. Like… I get being pissed that someone lied to you. And I get that things might need to adjust. But. person is the same?] Exactly

Oh shit [Ruh roh] Well shit

[Zach is a dick btw] *simultaneously* Aight that was out of line Zach. Agreed until then

Damn [Yep.]

Don’t like Lintlicker anymore. At all [This virus is called foreshadowing (I’m not telling you of what, but it concerns Max. And Logan.)]

BRUH SHES NOT A BREEDING MACHINE [You haven’t seen s2 Dark Angel yet and it shows]

I’m so mad sweet lord. They fucked with the kid. They really fucked with the kid! 😤 [I didn’t remember this, for what it’s worth]

Good! Fuck off, zach

Nooooo! Watch the blonde lady want the kid so she kills Tinga! [I confirm nothing] Cause blonde lady has the murder drone

I hate himmmmmmm. Lintlicker- hmph. I don’t how much of a change he makes

Hmph, his fucking shit eating grin

Oooop look at that you have been double-crossed, asshole!

Oooop look at that! Zach is back... asshole

She’s not one of them; she’s one of THEM! LE GASP

[Guess 656 is Tinga]

I’m confused… Is Brynn dead, or just knocked out? [Knocked out]

Ewww sibling hug [...] Pssssh I know it means more than that. To him at least

Breeeeeeding machine 😦

💔💔💔💔 [“I get why she didn’t tell me. If she had, I would’ve gone the other way.” Yeah, dumbass, that’s why she didn’t tell you. Congrats: you’ve leveled up your empathy stat]

[Max, haven’t you learned about making promises?] ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

I’ma be honest; I’m not sure the King is the one they should be worried about… I’d be concerned about the Queen

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Jezebel: I feel so bad for Tinga omg! That fucking suckssss

Wench: Yuppppp. And I can’t say it gets better! You get no spoilers beyond that but ye

Jezebel: 😭😭😭😭😭 Honestly, though, this one was kinda boring. I guess setting up for the two-part finale. So I don’t have much to say past what was said

Wench: I don’t know for sure it’s two parts btw. But I think it is because I’m pretty sure they’re both centered around helping Tinga

Jezebel: “Helping” tinga

Wench: Aight… next episode(s) sometime soon, then?

Jezebel: YES

#dark angel #dark angel reactions #reactions #episode reactions #s01e19 #hit a sista back #max guevara #logan cale #jezebel (pr)

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rachelkaser · 2 years ago

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Masonry Monday: The Case of the Haunted Husband

A hitchhiker gets picked up by a drunk driver who kills someone in a wreck. This streak of bad luck continues as she’s implicated in two gruesome murders. Meanwhile, her best friend works frantically with Perry Mason to clear her.

Who’s Who

Perry Mason’s client: Claire Olger, a hitchhiker picked up by the wrong man who gets mixed up in a murder conspiracy

The victim(s): Michael Greeley, a drunk driver who kills a trucker in an accident; and Ernest “Ernie” Tanner, the (British?) personal assistant to Heywood

Suspects: Doris Stephanak, Claire’s best friend, who goes undercover as a honey trap to help her out of her troubles Gerry Heywood, a film producer who claims that his car, used in the accident, was stolen Marcia Greeley, the wife of the first victim, who knows more than she’s letting on about her husband’s lifestyle

The Setup

It’s a dark and stormy night. A young woman is hitchhiking on the side of the road. A man in a tuxedo driving a sedan picks her up and almost immediately takes a sip from a flask. He starts asking her personal questions, and she uncomfortably explains she’s hitchhiking because her purse was stolen at a train stop. He tries to grope her, and she pulls away, but leaves a lipstick smear on his shirt. As he’s looking down, she screams as the car careens towards a truck.

Later, in District Attorney Hamilton Burger’s office, Assistant Hanley tells him that they’ve identified the truck’s driver, who didn’t survive the crash: His name was Albert Lowell, and he had two kids and a pregnant wife. Burger, angry, asks if they have the driver of the car in custody. The ADA says yes: A young woman named Claire Olger, who has a broken arm and bruises. She was the only one in the car, which smelled of alcohol and witnesses saw swerving on the road. Burger intends to pursue manslaughter charges and tells Hanley to talk to her.

In Claire’s hospital room, Hanley asks her why she stole the car. Claire protests that she didn’t, and describes the man who was driving the car. Hanley says the description doesn’t match the car’s owner, a Mr. Heywood. He shows her a picture of Heywood, who isn’t the driver. He continues to press Claire, saying she was the only one in the car and was found in the driver’s seat. Claire continues to protest her innocence.

Enter Perry Mason, Attorney at Law

Della enters Perry’s office and says a woman named Doris Stephanak is here, a friend of Claire Olger’s. Perry is initially disinterested in the case, but Della insists he speak to Doris and he complies. Doris immediately begins arguing Claire’s innocence. While she knows the case sounds bad, she says that Claire is too nice a girl to steal a car, and she was on her way to stay with Doris. She gives an impassioned defense of Claire’s character, which wins Perry over, and he agrees to meet her in her hospital room later.

Perry puts Paul on the scent of the car’s owner, Gerry Heywood. Paul reports that there’s not much to find about him. He’s a movie producer, has no apparent close friends, lovers, or enemies. Perry wonders whether Heywood’s lying over the car being stolen -- not many car thieves wear tuxedos -- and Paul says Heywood has no car insurance due to a problem with his company, so a car accident could cost him real money if it wasn’t stolen.

Later, Mason visits with Heywood at his home. Heywood insists he doesn’t know anyone who answers Claire’s description of the driver. Mason says he thinks Heywood is lying and he will find the driver. Heywood dismisses him and summons his assistant, Tanner. After Mason leaves, Heywood phones Marcia Greeley. He asks where her husband, Michael is, and Mrs. Greeley doesn’t know. Heywood implies Michael may be the driver and says they have to find him. She promises to do so. Tanner, who was listening, says he knows Heywood wasn’t home that night, and Heywood throws him out.

In Claire’s hospital room, Perry asks her if there’s anything she can add that wasn’t in the paper. She recalls leaving lipstick on the driver’s shirt, which Perry notes might be important. He tells the ladies he’ll arrange for Claire’s bail, and tells Doris to take her to the Gateview Hotel under an assumed name. Later, the mysterious driver reads in the paper that Claire is out on bail, and bribes the desk clerk at the Gateview to give him Claire’s room number. Back at the office, Perry says they should find the shirt.

Perry suddenly realizes that Mr. X would likely be looking for Claire, and will know that she’s no longer in the hospital. Mr. X knows Claire can pin him for manslaughter, and he tells Della to call Claire’s hotel room. There’s no answer. Perry and Paul head over to the Gateview. They get to the hotel room, which is locked, and Perry peeks through the window at the top of the door to see a body on the floor. He tells Paul to call Homicide, Tragg specifically. When Tragg arrives, he opens the door and reveals the body of Michael Greeley, the driver. Claire is nowhere to be found.

The Murder

Tragg pressures Paul and Perry to tell him who had the room, as the dead man fits the description of the driver. Keeping him quiet is motive enough for Claire to have killed him. Paul and Perry leave as Tragg promises to find her. Downstairs, they worry about Claire’s involvement. Perry goes to the phone book -- he noticed Greeley was wearing a wedding ring, and he wants to find Mrs. Greeley before Tragg does.

At Mrs. Greeley’s place, she says her husband, who’s a PR rep for Heywood’s studio, was in San Francisco the night of the crash. She also asks how he could have gotten home, but Paul points out there’s a bus stop nearby. Perry also tells her they’re looking for the lipstick-stained shirt. The phone rings, and it’s Tragg delivering the news about Greeley’s death. Mason apologizes to her, and she asks them to leave in tears.

In Doris’s apartment, she’s preparing a drink when there’s a knock at the door. It’s Tragg and a Sergeant. Doris furiously refuses to let them in, blocking the door, but Tragg has a warrant and forces his way in. The sergeant finds Claire in the bedroom. Tragg tells both ladies that Claire is under arrest. Later, Tanner is sitting at the bar at his hotel, reading an article about Greeley’s death.

The Investigation

Back in Perry’s office, Doris says that Claire arrived at her apartment the night of the murder, two hours before the police arrested her. Doris tried to alert Perry, but the office couldn’t locate him. Claire claims she left the hotel room because her arm hurt, went to the drugstore for aspirin, and came back to find Greeley’s body. Burger is conceding the Claire didn’t steal the car, but only because it gives her a motive for murder. Della interrupts to say there’s an anonymous tipster on the phone.

Perry answers, and Tanner’s obvious Cockney accent gives him away. He says Heywood has a lodge hideaway near Fresno, and hangs up. Perry tells Paul about Tanner’s tip. Paul says all they could dig up on Tanner is his fondness for women. They consider Paul’s female agents to try and get info out of him, but no one is available. Doris volunteers, and Paul tells her where Tanner lives. She can bribe the bartender to point him out. Doris goes to get prettied up, and Perry tells her to phone if there’s trouble.

At the Adirondack, Doris spots Tanner. He immediately takes an interest in her, and she strikes up a conversation with him. A few hours later, Perry and Della get a call from Doris. So far, the only useful thing Tanner’s told her is that, after the accident, Heywood’s car had 600 more miles on the speedometer than it should have. She says Tanner’s eager to extend their date. Later, Tanner tells Doris he quit, and he’s not scared of Heywood’s retribution as he’s got dirt on his ex-boss. He offers to take Doris back to his place to tell her all about it, and Doris agrees.

Perry and Della are worrying well into the night, and get a call from Mrs. Greeley. She tells Perry she has something that could help his client, and offers to bring it to his office. Perry assumes it was the shirt, which will now implicate Claire in the murder. Doris is waiting to call, but the phone booths are occupied. Eventually she gives up and goes back to Tanner’s apartment. The floor is covered in down feathers. She opens the bathroom door to find Tanner dead in the bathtub. She immediately calls Perry from Tanner’s own phone and begs him to come.

The Second Murder

Perry surveys the murder scene, noting the feathers. Doris says she was out of the room for a few moments getting Tanner some coffee. Wearing gloves Perry tells her he’ll call the police downstairs, and then take her home. Back in the office, he greets Mrs. Greeley and takes the lipstick-stained shirt from her. He tries to downplay its importance, when Tragg suddenly shows up and confiscates it.

Tragg mentions Tanner’s murder, and asks if Perry would know anything about it. Perry evades him. Tragg notes his wet shoes, and finally plays his trump card: Tanner’s killer used a pillow to muffle the fatal shot, leaving feathers all over the floor. He bends down and picks up just such a feather from the office carpet. While he admits that Claire couldn’t have killed Tanner, he remembers Doris. He bids Mason a sarcastic good luck at the hearing.

In the DA’s office, Burger confirms a new fact with Tragg: The shirt isn’t Greeley’s, as the size and laundry marks are wrong. Burger thinks Mason planted it, but Tragg isn’t so sure. Burger says he’s not going to introduce the shirt, as he believes Mason wants to prove it isn’t Greeley’s to undermine the prosecution. They’ll just keep it quiet until after the hearing.

The Preliminary Hearing

It’s near the end of the prosecution’s case, and Mason is baffled that Burger hasn’t introduced the shirt. Burger calls Heywood to the stand and asks about Heywood’s car, which they’ve stipulated wasn’t stolen by Claire Olger. On cross, Mason asks Heywood about the disparity in his car’s mileage and how the car could have had over 600 extra miles on it after its last service, which was the night before the accident.

Heywood says Greeley could have driven those 600 miles, but Mason points out that he (Heywood) reported the car stolen at noon. In the nine hours it was supposedly gone, it would have been impossible for it to have driven that distance. So it must have been stolen long before then, which Heywood reluctantly concedes.

Mason then asks Heywood about the distance between Los Angeles and Fresno, and brings to light a new fact that explains the shirt, the 600 miles, and what really happened on the day of the fateful accident . . .

In Summation

I’m not going to explicitly spoil the ending of this one, but given the limited suspect list above, I don’t think it’ll be too hard for viewers to figure out what happened in this case. However, I still recommend everyone give it a watch if at all possible, as this is one of Perry’s best early cases and the explanation of what really happened is fascinating once he fully unfolds it.

This is the first case of the series where we have not one, but two murders during the course of the investigation. It’s actually fairly gruesome by 50s TV standards -- I didn’t mention it in the recap, but Tanner is actually not dead when Doris finds him, as he tears down the shower curtain down in front of her just before he expires. It’s definitely one of Mason’s more bloody cases, which is probably one of the reasons I like it so much.

I don’t think I’ve yet addressed this, but I enjoy how this series depicts its female characters. While it’s often that a downtrodden woman is the victim of an abuser in these cases, they’re almost invariably given a layered personality and backstory, as well as chance to speak on their own behalf. Both Claire Olger and Doris Stephanak get a chance to shine onscreen, the latter slightly moreso than the former. Doris’s gumption and nerve impress Perry, Paul, and even Tragg to a lesser extent. She’s even willing to go so far as to date the clearly repulsive Tanner to get information out of him.

I’m not usually one to speculate on whether a piece of older media is “coded” a certain way, but even I think this episode comes very close (as close as a 1950s show could) to saying that Doris and Claire are actually girlfriends as opposed to friends. It wouldn’t make any difference either way, but throughout the entire case Claire is Doris’s first priority and she nearly assaults a police officer to shield her. Doris puts herself in danger trying to protect Claire and Tragg is fully ready to believe she killed a man for Claire. It’s not one-sided either, as Claire’s whole reason for being in the story is she was coming to live with Doris after losing her job, and she runs to Doris after finding Greeley’s body. Also, by the time the police find them, they’re both in their pajamas in an apartment with one bed, while Doris is holding a bottle of wine.

Actually, it’s a bit strange that Tanner’s murder is not explored in more depth, as one would presume that Tragg is eyeing Doris for the murderess. Perhaps the investigation hadn’t gotten to that part by the time the real murderer confessed (Tanner was offed mere hours before the preliminary hearing). But considering that Doris was seen in Tanner’s company and apartment building right up until his death, it was probably a close thing.

This is also one of the first cases where the murderer drops a very obvious clue that the eagle-eyed viewer would be able to spot. I won’t spoil what it is, but Perry getting Tragg to notice it at the end of the episode (by way of explaining how he pegged the murderer) is one of the funnier moments of the series.

The Verdict

Judgement: ⚖⚖⚖⚖ (four scales out of four) This is one of the more twisted cases of the first season, involving the first instance of a second murder. Doris Stephanak is one of the show’s best secondary characters, and the reveal of the murderer and motive is one of Perry’s better courtroom denouements.

#perry mason #masonry monday #raymond burr #paramount plus #s01e19 #the case of the haunted husband #della street #paul drake

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